Kairos Young Adult Adventure Wilderness Program - Meet Our Clinical Staff and Team

Kairos staff are experienced, professional, and highly effective. In addition to years of experience working with young adults andadults, all therapists have college degrees and are licensed. 

Dr. Gordon Day - Ph.D., Clinical Director
Gordon L. Day, Ph.D. (currently of Psychological Testing and formerly of Summit Preparatory School and Outback Therapeutic Expeditions) has been hired as director of a newly formed specialty program for neurologically diverse students.  This specialized student group will specialize in assessing and treating students with a wide range of learning and psychological difficulties, including those in the pervasive developmental disorder spectrum.

Dr. Day has had a dream to create a specialty program that makes the rich assessment and treatment opportunities in adventure therapy available to students with more significant learning disorders. Dr. Day is convinced that Aspiro provides the ideal foundation for helping these students.

"The Aspiro Group of programs has a strong adventure therapy model and a track record of helping students in a safe, respectful manner. It’s the perfect place to help these students learn and grow."
 

Dr. Brad Carpenter - Psy.D.
Brad comes to Kairos (Aspiro Group) with over 10 years of clinical experience working with adolescents in both therapeutic and assessment settings.  

His experience has brought him to understand the extraordinary and distinct characteristics of our students as well as the individualized needs of their families and consultants.  

Unlike most psychologists in traditional office settings, Brad has been fortunate enough to utilize and refine a model for “interactive assessment,” which we feel is uniquely suited to our program.    

Brad is originally from Atlanta, Georgia where he worked in adolescent residential treatment while obtaining his Doctorate of Psychology from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology.  During his education and training in clinical psychology, he specialized in psychological assessment and Neuropsychology. He received advance training at the Emory University School of Medicine and completed a dual track pre-doctoral internship in health & clinical psychology at Tewksbury Hospital outside of Boston, Massachusetts.  

He has most recently worked as the testing director and associate director of academics for a therapeutic boarding school where his responsibilities included assessment, therapy and research.  In addition, Brad has facilitated psychological assessments for a short-term wilderness program.  Here, he served as an academic consultant, helping to develop experiential curriculum and eventually guiding the program through accreditation.

In his spare time, he served as an adjunct professor for North Georgia College and State University where he taught psychological theory, assessment and therapy for their undergraduate program as well as their nationally accredited Graduate School of Counseling. 

For the past few years, Brad has volunteered the majority of his resources and time to the development of the music program and business club with students in a long-term therapeutic boarding setting.  He enjoys playing guitar, performance and music production.  He loves competitive sports and other outdoor activities such as hiking, mountain biking, boating, wakeboarding and snow skiing.